'Secrets & Intimacy': Recap of Our Exclusive Interviews from 2012

"I think cinema is a great place for secrets and intimacy." Its been quite a year. Looking back at 2012, I've been lucky enough to speak with legendary directors like Ridley Scott (for Prometheus) and Ang Lee (for Life of Pi), up-and-comers like Josh Trank (for Chronicle) and Rian Johnson (for Looper), interview esteemed actors like Michael Fassbender (for Prometheus) and Jason Clarke (for Zero Dark Thirty). Over the course of a year, we get to speak to many talented peopled in many places, in many different ways - over the phone, in person with a Flip cam, transcribed from audio, or even over Skype. I still consider it an honor every time we get to do an interview, and we wanted to recap all our interviews from this year below.

Here are all 36 interviews starting from the most recent interviews this December, working back through the year. There are markers for events like TIFF 2012, Prometheus (which had ~4 interviews!), WonderCon, all the way back to Sundance 2012 this past January. We're proud of every one of these and hope you find them worth your time. Last year ended with David Fincher. Browse and click any image for the interview:

"My favorite movies are ones that create this world that I actually can live in and experience, and when I leave the movie, I've been to that place, and that place is still a part of me."
-Derek Cianfrance

"Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky. History is straightforward, because I'm probably retelling a story and I've got points of reference. Science fiction, there's no points of reference; it's all brand new…"
-Ridley Scott

"The trick of the movie is being respectful of the iconography of Spider-Man - and understanding why people like Spider-Man, and honoring that, but also giving them something new and surprising and different…"
-Marc Webb

Click on any interview above to read/watch the full discussion. Thank you to anyone who helped make these interviews possible; we hope everyone enjoys them and finds them entertaining and perhaps—if we did our job—insightful. Over the course of the year we also featured a few interviews with stellar talent we didn't get to speak with, including Chris Nolan, Paul Thomas Anderson and Steven Spielberg. Other folks I'd love to talk with: Tom Hooper (Les Mis), Peter Jackson (The Hobbit), Colin Trevorrow (Safety Not Guaranteed), Robert Zemeckis (Flight), Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty), Marion Cotillard/Jacques Audiard (Rust & Bone), Joss Whedon (The Avengers) and of course Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained). Maybe one day!

If you can't already tell, I have a predilection towards interviewing directors/filmmakers, as well as writers and a few actors. I just think it's fascinating to interview the top person, who's putting together the picture, running the whole show. That's who I prefer to talk with and those are the kinds of interviews we go after.

While we don't have an endless amount of interviews, I am proud of those we do get, and I am a supporter of all the talented individuals we get to speak with. We hope you have enjoyed our recap of the FirstShowing exclusive interviews from 2012. As always, I'm excited for the year ahead and the potential interviews we could get, from Bryan Singer to Sam Raimi to J.J. Abrams to Neill Blomkamp, with their new movies on the way. For all of our upcoming interviews and updates, follow the interview category or subscribe to our RSS.